A new report from Statistics Canada has found that incomes for the highest earners grew at a faster pace than everyone else's in That represents a 1. Incomes grew at an even faster pace for those at the very top of the income distribution. The top 0. Meanwhile, the average income for the top 0.
Correction date: On November 13, , estimates related to Quebec provincial income taxes and national after-tax income were corrected for Income groups. Reference period From: To: Other data access options: Developers. Showing records. Supporting disadvantaged students Canadian students perform well despite their socio-economic status, first language or whether they are native Canadians or recent immigrants.
Targeted programmes have been successful supporting vulnerable populations attain higher levels of education.
For example, the Pathways to Education Program helps youth from underprivileged communities complete secondary education. Parents, community agencies, volunteers, local school boards and secondary schools work collaboratively to provide four main types of support: academic tutoring, group and career mentoring, advocacy, and financial aid.
By , the programme expanded to an additional 12 neighbourhoods, including Aboriginal communities. Other positive results include reduced absenteeism rates, increased representation in the academic stream, and higher graduation and postsecondary education rates.
The quality of our local living environment has a direct impact on our health and well-being. Outdoor air pollution is one important environmental issue that directly affects the quality of people's lives. Despite national and international interventions and decreases in major pollutant emissions, the health impacts of urban air pollution continue to worsen , with air pollution set to become the top environmental cause of premature mortality globally by Air pollution in urban centres, often caused by transport and the use of small-scale burning of wood or coal, is linked to a range of health problems, from minor eye irritation to upper respiratory symptoms in the short-term and chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma, cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer in the long-term.
Children and the elderly may be particularly vulnerable. In Canada, PM2. Access to clean water is fundamental to human well-being. Despite significant progress in OECD countries in reducing water pollution, improvements in freshwater quality are not always easy to discern. Ontario's Great Lakes Strategy responds to public concerns about the deteriorating condition of the Great Lakes ecosystems.
Stakeholders can influence the development of legally enforceable policies through this involvement with advisory committees. This engagement process has been a good mechanism to set policy direction and implement solutions to complex environmental challenges.
Federal government regulations took effect on 1 July , requiring that new coal-fired power plants, and existing coal-fired generation units nearing the end of their useful life, bring emissions intensity below the level of a natural gas combined cycle plant. Existing "end of life" coal units must either be shut down or retrofitted with carbon capture and storage CCS.
The year lifetime allowed under this regulation is somewhat long; the government expects the regulation to force closure of 20 coal units by , but 16 of these shutdowns would occur after If a shorter lifetime were applied this type of policy could be used to drive accelerated "unlocking" of existing coal-fired generation assets e.
Ontario completed a phase out of coal-fired electricity generation in April, , shutting down three coal-fired generation stations Lakeview, Nanticoke and Lambton and converting two others to biomass Atikokan and Thunder Bay. In the province of Alberta announced a phase-out of coal-fired generation by , although under the federal regulations six of the 18 affected coal units could have continued operating beyond Beyond their climate benefits, these phase-outs of coal-fired electricity generation will yield positive impacts on air quality and health.
Trust in government is essential for social cohesion and well-being. High voter turnout is a measure of citizens' participation in the political process. This figure is in line with lower than the OECD average. Broader public engagement in the decision-making process is also important for holding the government to account and maintaining confidence in public institutions.
The formal process for public engagement in developing laws and regulations is one way to measure the extent to which people can become involved in government decisions on key issues that affect their lives.
In Canada, the level of stakeholder engagement in developing regulations is 2. Over 34 federal departments and agencies, the 13 provincial and territorial governments and more than municipalities participate in BizPaL. This project receives an annual budget of CAD 3 million, which enables an ongoing improvement of the service. Through BizPaL, entrepreneurs and small business owners can identify which permits and licences they need and how to obtain them by selecting the business activities and geographical location of choice.
BizPaL automatically generates a list of all required permits and licences from all levels of government, along with basic information on each with links to the specific government sites where the entrepreneur can learn more and, in some cases, apply online. In developing the BizPaL service, the federal government Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, ISED has been responsible for securing the participation of all levels of government, which have been responsible for securing the participation of municipal governments.
ISED manages the project centrally, but each jurisdiction is responsible for maintaining its own data within the system. Most OECD countries have enjoyed large gains in life expectancy over the past decades, thanks to improvements in living conditions, public health interventions and progress in medical care. Life expectancy at birth in Canada stands at close to 82 years , two years above the OECD average of 80 years.
Higher life expectancy is generally associated with higher health care spending per person, although many other factors have an impact on life expectancy such as living standards, lifestyles, education and environmental factors. When asked, "How is your health in general?
Despite the subjective nature of this question, answers have been found to be a good predictor of people's future health care use. While Forty-two percent of low-income households subscribed to mobile service only, as did about a quarter of the highest-income households.
Of the five income quintiles, households in the fifth quintile changed their telephone usage habits the most in The number of landline-only households in this income quintile decreased by Households in the fourth income quintile changed their telephone usage habits the most when it came to exclusive use of mobile service, showing an increase of Financial resources appear to play a role in whether households subscribed to both mobile and landline services.
Over the past five years, households in the highest income quintile consistently recorded the lowest percentage of households subscribing to mobile services only. Conversely, households in the lowest income quintile recorded the highest percentage of households subscribing to landline services only. Although LTE coverage was largely available in most regions, Alberta led in terms of mobile penetration, with Prince Edward Island led in terms of coverage.
However, it had the lowest penetration rate of the provinces While a majority of Canadians had access to LTE networks and Furthermore, there were more mobile-only households in the Western provinces and Ontario than in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec, even though LTE was available to a greater percentage of the population in the Atlantic provinces CMR Table 6.
Quebec had the highest percentage of landline-only households Households in New Brunswick were the most reliant upon landlines — In contrast, Overall, the coverage of almost Internet use from home increased slightly in all income quintiles except the fourth quintile, an overall average increase of 1. The vast majority of high-income households subscribed to Internet services in , compared to less than two-thirds of the lowest-income households.
Internet use from home in the first income quintile was With mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, Canadians can access the Internet from nearly any location. However, home computers still played an important role for Canadians. As Table 1. Overall, more households owned mobile phones This trend was more pronounced in the lower income quintiles.
For example, Home computer ownership was unchanged between and , except in the second income quintile, where it increased by 1. Households make decisions about the amounts they are willing to spend on communications services, with spending habits varying for many different reasons. Some habits reflect personal choice and others are influenced by service availability, affordability, and household resources. Data on communications services spending provides insights into how communications services affect the household budget, but there are limitations when using expenditure data to assess adoption and spending patterns.
The data does not reflect consumption of free services, such as over-the-air television and radio services, which remain valuable to many Canadians. The data presented here reports average expenditures and takes into account all households, including those that do not subscribe to any services. As a result, the average expenditures may over- or under-report actual spending for individual households. Most communications subscriptions, like those for television distribution, landline, and Internet services, tend to be purchased at a household level and often in a bundle Footnote 6 , meaning that there is a single subscription per household.
However, larger households may have higher expenditures for these services e. Households may have several subscriptions to mobile services. The data presented here does not allow for analysis of individual expenditures on communications services.
Average income increased in all income quintiles, except in the fifth quintile. As in , Internet and mobile services drove household expenditure growth and telecommunications industry revenues see Figure 1.
In , expenditures on mobile services led in terms of annual growth 9.
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